Why Is Stage 5 of the Business Strategy So Difficult? If you haven’t done it already December is the time you will probably be thinking about next year 2019 – what will it hold for you in your business and personal life? Avoid the 6 mistakes business owners make when developing their business strategy and increase your success in...

You may not follow Formula 1, however yesterday’s Chinese F1 Grand Prix produced a result out of the blue because of employee engagement, plus some luck. Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo won the Chinese Grand prix from 6th place on the starting grid after an engine failure on Saturday. It was a “Herculean effort” by the team said...

Feedback! Do you remember the last time you went on that training course and you got the dreaded training course feedback form to complete before you left the building? Did it have questions which you were to score between say, 1 & 10, with 1 one being extremely poor to 10 being excellent? How objective is that as most of us are subjective in our...

“Now we start the new year ” – a great quote yesterday by Toto Wolff, the Mercedes-Benz F1 team manager, after Lewis Hamilton and secured his fourth World Championship and Mercedes-Benz had already been confirmed as the constructors champions when asked by an interviewer “What happens now?” That is what champions do. They keep working towards the...

What are the Risks in Growing Your Business? (1 of 5) Growing your business is exciting and can be very rewarding in terms of finance and satisfaction, however it doesn’t come without risks and in this series of posts I want to highlight the risks which can put your business in danger and how you can overcome them. Running out of Cash ‘Cash is...

“I am the Referee and Not your Coach!” Romain Poile refereeing 6 Nations England v Italy 26/2/17 A Business Coach does not have the luxury of saying “I am your coach and not a referee” when working with clients in a period of change, especially in family owned business where the younger management team want to move forward and the...